Academy Failure?

[JobForTheMoyes]

Your suggestion merely echoes what the club has done for years hence it does not, nor cannot, work as proven by our lamentable failure to provide the team with home grown talent.
Obviously if a trainer sees a talent that might be suited to a different position he will change that position but the player concerned should be told clearly that such positional changes are few.
I also think that in most cases a future star is apparent at an early stage, such players should get time on the first team bench.
One oddity has occurred to me who was the last home grown keeper we've produced, is it Andy Rankin all those years ago?

But wasn’t the reason the Dutch were so successful is the Total Football idea, where a player can theoretically play in any position. It may stunt short term results, but is surely better in the longer term?

 

[monty]

But wasn’t the reason the Dutch were so successful is the Total Football idea, where a player can theoretically play in any position. It may stunt short term results, but is surely better in the longer term?

Even the Dutch don't do it anymore if they did it would have been used here under Koemans, a Dutchman.